SKS (Health, Culture and Sports Department)

I' m Mehmet Karatepe. I am working as the head of health, culture, and sports at the university. After working as a teacher and administrator in the ministry of national education for 25 years, I started to work here in 2016. The Department of Health, Culture, and Sports is a service unit where all social, cultural, and sports activities are carried out in line with the interests and abilities of our students. There are 5 categories: nutrition services, health services, social services, sports services, and financial support services. Now, one of our main services at our university are catering services. We provide our students with the best food service in all our units under the most hygienic conditions, taking into account the calories that a student should take in a day. We provide psychological counseling and guidance services in health services. In terms of health services, Bandırma Training and Research Hospital in the central campus serves as a training and research hospital with all its branches. Family Health Center No. 19, affiliated to the Ministry of Health, continues to serve our students in the central campus as a service area where primary health care services are carried out. We provide social and cultural activities. We have guidelines on this subject. Within the framework of the guidelines, students can establish student clubs. Through the student clubs they have established, they can carry out activities such as seminars and conferences. For sports events, there is an Astroturf and basketball court in each campus. Our indoor gym is about to be completed. We will support our students in all necessary branches.
There are areas where our sports teams can train at the university. In the central campus, we have an astroturf, a multi-purpose indoor sports hall, an indoor sports hall, and a swimming pool, which became operational in this academic year. Students will be able to benefit from sports services in our fitness center, outdoor tennis courts, basketball court, and all halls related to other sports in the central campus. Student clubs are established on the basis of the student clubs directive. These clubs carry out all kinds of activities related to their interests. To this day, various conferences, seminars, excursions, interviews, and cinema days were organized by them. As the Health, Culture, and Sports Department, we continue to provide all kinds of support to the students. Students are doing very good work with their advisors and they learn more as a result of these studies. We support our students in terms of social assistance and financial support services as a part of the part-time student employment program. Students also support us in the relevant units of the university in line with their abilities. Every year in September, we take in part time students. We support students by paying an average of 800 – 1000 TL for a maximum of 60 hours of labor time per month. Students also support us in line with their interests and abilities. We also provide a food scholarship. At the rate of 2 percent of the number of students, we provide approximately 600 TL worth of food scholarships per month, with a total of 2 million 500 thousand TL scholarships to approximately 500 students. We provide scholarship opportunities through the Bandirma University Foundation. Again, we support approximately 50 students, who are allocated to our university by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Credit and Hostels Institution, with education scholarships. First of all, I’d like to give the following advice to the future students. I recommend them to graduate with full academic qualifications, secondly to learn at least one language, and to take part in a social responsibility project. In this way, it will be easy to have communication, cooperation, and coordination skills whilst working after graduation. I wish good luck to the candidates who will take the university exam.